Update MS_Ashmole_44.xml

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collections/Ashmole/MS_Ashmole_44.xml

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                   <msItem class="#romances" n="1" xml:id="MS_Ashmole_44-item1">
                      <locus>(fol. 1r-97v)</locus>
                      <title key="work_15500">The Wars of Alexander</title>
-                     <incipit><hi>W</hi>hen <hi rend="superscript">folk</hi> ere festid &amp; fed fayn wald þai here <lb/> Su<ex>m</ex> farand þinge eft<ex>ir</ex> fode to fayn<ex>en</ex> þar<ex>e</ex> hert<ex>es</ex></incipit>
+                     <incipit><hi>W</hi>hen <hi rend="superscript">folk</hi> ere festid &amp; fed fayn wald þai here <lb/> Su<ex>m</ex> farand þinge eft<ex>ir</ex> fode to fayn<ex>e</ex> þar<ex>e</ex> hert<ex>es</ex></incipit>
                      <explicit>Tiree &amp; Tasse &amp; Tessale our<ex>e</ex> tributars er<ex>e</ex> <lb/> Poliponens &amp; Pentapol &amp; Palestyne þ<hi rend="superscript">e</hi> riche</explicit>
                      <note>The longest and most complete witness of <title>The Wars of Alexander</title>. This version is imperfect, containing lines 1-5803 lines out of a possible 6300 originally. There is one other witness of this text, Dublin, Trinity College MS 213 olim. MS D.4.12, which only preserves a portion of the text (lines 678-3424 and 3485-3553). These witnesses are very similar in their scribal dialect, variants, and content, leading Gert Ronberg to suggest that they may have been copied from the same exemplar (1985, p. 604).
                         <p>123 lines are missing from between lines 722 and 846, containing the end of Anectanabus's speech and the beginning of Alexander's. Hoyt N. Duggan and Thorlac Turville-Petre suggest that this is due to the loss of a singleton leaf which was once attached between folios 12 and 13 (1989, p. x). This lacuna is not noted in Stevenson's 1849 edition.</p>
@@ -53,19 +53,21 @@
                   <objectDesc form="codex">
                      <supportDesc material="chart">
                         <support>paper
-                        <watermark>One watermark throughout: a set of scales resembling Briquet 2401 (dated c.1437).</watermark></support>
+                        <watermark>One watermark throughout: a set of scales resembling Briquet 2401 (dated c.1437), following Duggan and Turville-Petre (1989, pp. ix-x). Folded in quarto.</watermark></support>
                         <extent>ix + 97 + ix
-                           <height>225-229</height>
+                           <dimensions unit="mm" type="leaf">
+                           <height>222-225</height>
                            <width>144-147</width>
-                        </extent>
+                        </dimensions>
+                           </extent>
                         <foliation>Foliated in modern ink.</foliation>
-                        <collation>1<hi rend="superscript">16</hi>, 2<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 3<hi rend="superscript">20</hi>, 4<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 5<hi rend="superscript">20</hi>, 6<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 7<hi rend="superscript">12-7</hi> (only first-fifth folios remaining, attached as singletons; sixth and seventh leaves are stubs.).*** The size of the last quire is uncertain, but watermarks suggest that it once contained at least ten folios. Twelve has been suggested here for coherence with the rest of the collation. No catchwords or leaf signatures present. </collation>
+                        <collation>1<hi rend="superscript">16</hi>, 2<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 3<hi rend="superscript">20</hi>, 4<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 5<hi rend="superscript">20</hi>, 6<hi rend="superscript">12</hi>, 7<hi rend="superscript">12-7</hi> (only first-fifth folios remaining, attached as singletons; sixth and seventh leaves are stubs.). The size of the last quire is uncertain, but watermarks suggest that it once contained at least ten folios. Twelve has been suggested here for coherence with the rest of the collation. No catchwords or leaf signatures present. </collation>
                         <condition>Page edges worn and fragile, but binding sound. Some staining to first folio and outer leaves of quires. Slight damp staining from folio 71 onwards. Overall paper condition good.</condition>
                      </supportDesc>
                      <layoutDesc>
-                        <layout columns="1" writtenLines="25 34">Three-sided frame ruled in plummet for the left vertical margin and both upper and lower horizontal margins. Single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines extending the full height and width of the page. Text in one column, of between 25-34 lines per page. Written space: 
+                        <layout columns="1" writtenLines="25 34">Three-sided frame ruled in plummet for the left vertical margin and both upper and lower horizontal margins. Single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines extending the full height and width of the page. Text in one column, of between 25-34 lines per page but predominantly 31-2 lines. Written space: 
                            <dimensions type="written" unit="mm">
-                              <height>164-175</height>
+                              <height>145-175</height>
                               <width>110-125</width>
                            </dimensions>
                         </layout>
@@ -80,7 +82,7 @@
                      <decoNote type="histInit">There are two inhabited initials in the manuscript, executed in the same ink as the text and likely by the same scribe. They mark the beginning of the text and the beginning of a Passus. The text opens on <ref target="https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/72f3f3f4-bc78-476a-bbcb-0578d4686135/surfaces/6c1b8b88-22f9-4b19-a31c-f70eb23732af/">fol. 1r</ref> with a 6-line initial <q>W</q> decorated with a face and embellished with a zig-zag design. A  five-line inhabited <q>N</q> occurs on folio 9v.</decoNote>
                      <decoNote type="flourInit">When they do not contain an inhabited initial, the beginnings of Pasuses are marked with a running title and a variety of lombardic initials, in the same ink as the main text and likely by the same scribe. Two-line initials occur at folios 4v, 15v, and 55r. Larger three-line initial are also used, as on folios 19v, 25r, 29v, 34v, 45r, 52r, 75v, 87v, 94v, and 97r. More ornate four and five-line initials with additional flourishes appear on folios 40r, 49r, 59v, 63r, 65r, 69r, 73v, 79r, 81v, 84v, and 91v.</decoNote></decoDesc>
                   <additions>The initials <q>R. R.</q> and <q>R. ANON</q> are written in the lower margin of folio 1r - see <title>Provenance</title>.
-                     <p>The summary catalogue number <q>6925</q> and the note <q>XXVII Paper Alexandri <gap reason="illegible"></gap> Eng Poem . imperf.</q> appear on the first paper flyleaf, and the notes <q>Ash 44</q> and <q>Ms Ashmole 44</q> on the upper pastedown. These pages are likely original to Ashmole's binding. The shelf mark <q>A.44.</q> is written in the lower margin of folio 95r. These notes were likely added when the manuscript joined the Bodleian's collection - see <q>Provenance</q>.</p></additions>
+                     <p>The summary catalogue number <q>6925</q> and the note <q>XXVII Paper Alexandri <gap reason="illegible"></gap> Eng Poem . imperf.</q> appear on the first paper flyleaf, and the notes <q>Ash 44</q> and <q>Ms Ashmole 44</q> on the upper pastedown. These pages are likely original to Ashmole's binding. The shelf mark <q>A.44.</q> is written in the lower margin of folio 95r. These notes were likely added when the manuscript joined the Ashmolean's collection - see <q>Provenance</q>.</p></additions>
                   <bindingDesc><binding notAfter="1692" notBefore="1617"><p>Late seventeenth-century calf binding over pasteboards typical of Elias Ashmole's style. The edges of both boards are decorated with concentric tool framing. The head, tail, and panels of the spine display the same style of tooling in horizontal frames. The spine shows four raised sewing supports covering thick cords, without end bands. The sewing supports are laced into the boards using shortened single-hole lacing without channels.</p> 
                      <p>The binding has been rebacked since the manuscript left Ashmole's collection. The spine is covered in a separate piece of leather from the boards, of the same colour, that extends under the board-covers. On to this leather, a portion of the former (Ashmolean) spine has been adhered. This piece of leather covers the three central spine panels and raised sewing supports. The shelf mark <q>ASH. 44</q> is embossed on the third spine panel in Ashmole's typeset. Above this is Ashmole's embossed crest featuring his quartered heraldic design. The board-covers show evidence of having been lifted up at the spine-edge to allow for the spine-cover to be adhered beneath them. </p>
                      <p>The inner rear board bears an inscription typical of the Bodleian's in-house bindery, with the initial <q>W.</q> and the date <q>16-12-55</q> - likely the date of the rebacking.</p>